Some things you should know about what happened. Peter Pan 'killed' Prince Charming/David when they were trying to get Henry's heart back and then sent them all back to Storybrooke. I also don't have a regular updating schedule but I'll try to keep all the chapters the same length. I added some other character's points of view in this chapter as well, enjoy :)
"But you are gay," I fire back at his dark tone.
"And what makes you think that," he asks actually caught off guard.
"Because ginger or not you live on an island with a bunch of boys and you wear that." He moves closer to me closing the small space between us and smashes his lips to mine kissing me hard. I slap him and he pulls away grinning and nods.
"Yeah not gay," he said clearly proud of himself.
"Touch me again and I'll break your jaw."
"I hope you aren't trying to scare me." He said raising an eyebrow. I just raise my eyebrows at him.
"Sorry I try not to communicate with people that talk on that level of stupidity."
"I'd be nicer to me if I were you."
"What no more sarcastic remarks?" I ask sweetly.
"Oh I've got plenty."
"Too bad I won't be around to see them."
"Oh don't worry love, you will."
"Don't call me love."
"I'll call you what I want to call you love."
"Go jump off a cliff."
"Oh that is actually a lot of fun. Come on I'll show you." He said grabbing my arm and pulling me off in a seemingly random direction. Then we were standing at the top of a cliff.
"Okay I told you to jump off a cliff I never said to bring me with you. Besides before you kill yourself at least give me the pizza you owe me." He ignored me and jumped pulling me over with him. All I had time to do was scream. Until I realized gravity wasn't working and I wasn't soaked to the bone and ran through by some sharp looking rocks. I noticed Peter's arms around me and glared at him. He just smirked and flew away deciding to do flips and throw me though the air while I swore and told him to do stuff that wasn't physically possible. He flew over the surrounding ocean and dropped me and I screamed even louder than before. He swooped down and caught me bridal style and unashamed I buried my head in his chest breathing hard and panicking.
"What's wrong," he asked actual worry in his voice. When I felt him touch land I immediately jumped out of his arms and punched him squarely in the jaw. My eyes wide with fear even though I hated it.
"My best friend drowned in the Atlantic four years ago!" I shriek at him hating how unsteady my voice was. I'm strong. But I'm terrified of large bodies of water. Terrified and something told me he knew it too. Somehow I got my boot off and was hitting him with it only twice, and not as hard as I wanted though. I stepped back against a tree and sank to my knees. I didn't break down like this. I only ever did once, the day I accepted the fact that Shay was dead. Even then I wasn't as shaken as I was now.
"Come on, up you go." Peter said surprisingly gentle as he held a hand out once I pulled myself a little more back together.
"Drop dead," I said but it sounded weird coming from me in the state I was in.
"Come on the boys will be back in a minute and I doubt you want to deal with them at the moment."
"Got to hell."
"Come on Emerald it's not like I knew you were afraid of water."
"Yes you did I don't know how but I know you did. You knew my friend drowned and yet you did it anyways. You're a monster Peter Pan." I said my anger making me stronger. He glowered at me but I stood tall and kept my ground refusing to cower and hide from his penetrating dark gaze.
"Peter," the monotone voice from before called.
"What Felix?" he asked not moving his eyes off me. "You're weird new girl."
"Not weird just different." I say my voice unwavering. Peter goes off with Felix to the other side of the camp and I massage my temples ignoring the little boys surrounding me.
3rd person POV
"They've arrived," Felix said once they were far enough away from the new girl.
"I know Felix, I own this island I know when people appear on it," Peter said obviously mad but at what Felix had no idea. Peter knew but refused to believe he was right. You're a monster Peter Pan Emerald's voice echoed through his head. "Why don't we give our friend in the cage a visit? I need to have a chat with my dear brother... and his company." He added. Felix nodded and stalked across the camp to where the cages were ten feet into the forest. Peter watched and scanned the camp his eyes stopping on Emerald's form as she sat down against the tree her head in her hands as she was leaning her elbows on her knees.
She was strange he decided. Her piercing emerald green eyes seemed to see his soul. When she was crying he actually wanted to comfort even now, he had to hold himself back from walking over and taking her in his arms murmuring words of comfort. He hated that she called him a monster and meant it, he hated that she actually caused him to feel emotions he had long ago abandoned. Without thinking he took a step towards her but remembered where he was supposed to be going and disappeared reappearing just outside the camp a decent amount of his family had made.
"We can still save Henry?" Regina's voice carried and Peter rolled his eyes.
"Well yes, if you did the spell on Henry's body correctly," Rumpelstiltskin said. "All you'd need to do is take the heart from Pan and return it to Henry."
"Why are you telling us this now?"
"Yeah why now instead of hey three years ago?" Emma asked agreeing with Regina's previous statement.
"Because we couldn't beat him then." Rumpelstiltskin said as if it were obvious.
"And what makes you think we can beat him now?" Hook asked.
"Because now, we have a secret weapon," Rumpelstiltskin said. Peter contemplated it and decided games were much more fun with surprises.
"Ooh scary," he said sarcastically. Smirking when a fire ball formed in Regina's hand and everyone grabbed a weapon while Gold tried to shove him against a tree. Peter just summoned a little bit of magic and set up a wall around him absorbing all the attacks. "Problem number one, you'd have get the heart from me, and problem number two you are missing your dear friend Bealfire. Oh and problem number three, you're in Neverland now that means you have to deal with all the perils of it while trying to solve problems one, two, and four. We can't be leaving the safety of Miss Emerald out," Peter mocked smirking when everyone looked at the spot Neal was previously in to find him missing. "Then of course there's problem number five, I never lose." He paused and let that sink in a sadistic smirk appearing on his face. Happy hunting!"
"What do you want with her?" Regina asked surprising herself. The girl was nothing to her, it didn't matter what happened to her. But you should've saved her a thought whispered at the back of her mind.
"I guess we'll just have to wait and see if she's of use to me. If she's not, well, we are always needing new targets. What does it matter to you anyways?" Rumpelstiltskin narrowed his eyes at his brother's question. Emerald was the one he'd been searching for after all. You've doomed her! The fatherly part of his mind raged. It was almost too easy to ignore it.
"I-it doesn't," Regina said caught off guard. Peter raised his eyebrows.
"Does it now," he said smirking. "Be careful Neverland is a dangerous place," he said with mock care.
"Cage two," Felix said waiting for J the guy on guard duty to lower the cage containing Prince Charming. "Hello Prince Charming," Felix said mockingly smirking when the adult's eyes snapped open. "Guess who's back in Neverland. Oh don't worry they're not here for you. Here to save your grandson. But we all know they'll fail before they get near him." It was weird talking about him like he was still alive, but it was worth it.
"You won't touch them!" He yelled furiously at the teenager taunting him.
"Of course we will. Pan made Emma a promise and he always keeps his promises. See you later with some more news," Felix said monotonously backing out of the small clearing while Prince Charming thrashed in his cage. He walked into camp and took in the unorganized formations on the boys playing games with daggers and other assorted sharp objects. His eyes slid over the scene and stopped on Emerald. The shadow told him why she was there, but he didn't tell Peter. Sometimes he found it odd that the shadow wasn't really a part of Peter but a part of Neverland.
"You don't think she can do it," the shadow whispered through his mind. He took a few steps back into the jungle and out of sight before answering.
"I really don't see what's so special about her." Felix answered fearlessly.
"And neither does Malcolm, that's why she'll save Neverland. Malcolm is growing up again, soon Peter Pan will be able to separate from him, but he'll need motivation. That's what the girl is for." The shadow said revealing more about what needed to happen than before.
"Why'd he join with Malcolm anyway?" Felix asked thinking back to when it was just Peter without Malcolm.
"All in good time, all in good time. Remember to do your piece."
"Don't worry about me I won't fail like James," Felix scoffed.
"James was a fool. You'd do well to learn from his mistakes."
"What was her name again? Jane? I see more potential in her," Felix said pointing a finger in the direction of the camp, "then there ever was in Jane."
"You're denser than you loom if you can't see it. Even the dark one knew it. Why do you think he adopted her?" The shadow seethed. Felix smiled, getting more information than ever. "Go, Malcolm is about to return." Felix nodded reluctantly and walked the few steps back to camp entering a few seconds before Pan/Malcolm did.
Peter stepped into camp and noticed three things, one Felix was staring at him from the entrance of the path leading to the cages, two, Cubbie one of the original lost boys was looking at Emerald with curiosity and he hated it, and three, Emerald hadn't moved from where she'd been when he'd left. He took a step towards the girl reflexively. He frowned unsure as to what he was going to do with her. He could lock her up, but he shot that idea down right away oddly against seeing her trapped. His train of thought slowed sensing the shadow's presence nearby. He smirked and walked into the jungle again.
Emma tried to sleep but she couldn't whenever she did she saw Emerald's face, or Henry's. She squeezed her eyes shut remembering Emerald's face when the shadow carried her off. The screams were imprinted into her memory. She was so much like Henry. She was the same when it came to believing. Emerald had her doubts but Emma knew that Henry would too if he was her age. Who wouldn't?
Now he has Neal too. They grew apart after trying and failing at another relationship once they were forced back to Storybrooke but she owes it to him to save him. Restlessly she got up and sat near the small fire staring into the flames lost in thought.
"What are you thinking about?" Mary Margaret asked from behind her.
"Emerald. She reminds me of Henry. And now Pan has both her and Neal, not to mention Henry's heart." Mary Margaret nodded sadly.
"It took her less time to believe all of this stuff was real than it took you. She kind of reminds me of you. She's got the same look in her eyes. Do you know what happened to her parents?"
"No, I don't. She didn't like talking about them. Do you think we'll save them?" Emma hesitated before asking.
"I used to think anything was possible. Now I'm not so sure." Mary Margaret said distantly remembering her Prince Charming.